Automatic coaling apparatus for bunkers, &amp;c.



No. 871,469. PATBNTED Nov. 19, '1907.

A. BLIBDUNG.

- AUTOMATIC GOALING APPARATUS FOR BUNKERS, &o.

- APPLIUATION FILED MAB. 16. 1907.

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AUGUST BLIEDUNG, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY'.

y AUTOMATIC COALING APPARATUS FOR BUNICERS, 85C.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 190'?.

Application filed March 16. 1907. Serial No. 362.666. 4

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST BLIEDUNG, a citizen of Germany, residing atHamburg, in Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Automatic Coaling Apparatus for Bunkers and Like Spaces, of which thefollowing is a specification.

It has hitherto been customary to introduce goods for instance coalsinto bunkers and like spaces by shooting them laterally into the same bymeans of baskets or mechanical conveyers. The coals must then be trimmedby workmen in the bunkers in order to ill up the entire space. Thismethod has `the drawback of the work being very expensive and the healthof the workmen trimming the materials suffers in consequence of the dustproduced in the bunkers or like spaces.

The arrangement which forms the object of this invention removes thesedrawbacks by enabling the bunkers to be fully trimmed by purelymechanical means. It consists substantially of a distributing apparatusarranged preferably under the bunker deck and composed of a pulling andseveral forwarding members, which move in a channel and carry forward orconvey the material shot through one or two places in the bunker deckand distribute it over the entire bunker space through occasionallyclosable apertures in the channel.

An example of construction of the object of the invention is shown inthe accomp any* ing drawings in which Figure l is a side view, and Fig.2 a plan view of the apparatus arranged in a ship.

A channel -bis arranged under the bunker deck -afif desired on a secondceiling or deck. This channel is provided with apertures -cwhich areadapted to be closed by slides (Z- operatable from the outside. Rollerseare also provided in the channel over which rollers e chain ftravels,which carries scoops or buckets g-both runs of the chain being locatedin a common horizontal plane or parallel to deck a. The rollers areoperated mechanically from the boiler room or elsewhere.

The method of operation of this arrangement is as follows: the coal orthe like which is to be conveyed into the bunker, is shot from overboardon one or both sides of the channel -band conveyed forward therein bythe buckets or scoops -g-. At each place at which the materialisintended to drop into the chamber, the slides -d are opened so thatthe material may be distributed over the entire space.

lVhat I claim is In a coaling apparatus, a deck, a chamber beneath thedeck and having lower openings, rollers within the chamber, a chainengaging the rollers and arranged in a plane parallel to the deck, andbuckets carried by the chain, substantially as specified.

. AUGUST BLIEDUNG. IVitnesses HAMILTON RESEK, IDA CHRIST. HAFERMANN.

